[Ed] “The fact is, to be honest with you Mike, things have been a bit tight lately ... I realised things started to go wrong for me when you dropped the price of the milk. When you started paying me less.”

Mike’s horrified.

He reckons if he hadn’t dropped his price for his customers, and therefore started paying Ed less, they’d both have gone under. It was all the supermarket’s fault – they dropped their prices, so did the smaller chaps.

But, As Ed points out, the supermarkets have put their prices up, after the Dairy farmers protest.Yet since then, Mike hasn’t put his prices back up. Ed’s hearing other dairy farmers are back to getting 5p more for their milk.

Ed only wants an extra penny.

(Actually – Ed does have a point. Seems Mike choses his reasons to suit himself, at times)

Mike starts to get furious. He doesn’t need to get that sort of stress from Ed eight now – not with the baby on the way. It would be a horrific time to take a gamble with his business by outing his prices back up, and possibly alienating his customers.

2 comments:

If Mike can't see he needs to raise prices after the supermarkets did similar then it's nothing but a vanity business subsidised by Ed, who can't afford it. The public are all too familiar with inflation on food over the last couple of years, Ed's extra 1p/litre would be at most 1p on a 568ml doorstep pint, surely?

But it was Vicky that was really annoying. It reminded me how much I dislike her. If this was fiction, I'd be hoping for a sticky end for the second Mrs Mike Milk-Baron Tucker.